The Side Project
When I first started working as a technologist some 17 years ago, I was doing fairly low-level stuff: moving and...
2017-01-11 (first published: 2017-01-04)
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Tim Mitchell
ETL Error Handling
In designing a proper ETL architecture, there are two key questions that must be answered. The first is, “What should...
2016-12-28
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Survey Results: Skipping the Holidays
Last week I posted a brief survey about working the holiday. To those who normally are not required to work...
2016-12-27
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Survey: Skipping the Holidays?
For a little pre-holiday fun, I’ve got a simple scenario to present to you, and I am interested in your...
2016-12-23
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SSIS Custom Logging Levels
In my ongoing series on ETL best practices, I recently wrote about the importance of logging in extract-transform-load processes. For...
2016-12-22
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KPIs in SSRS 2016
Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are at-a-glance metrics for simple insight into the business. These are each designed to provide...
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-22)
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Report Portal in SSRS 2016
SQL Server Reporting Services benefits from a major update in SQL Server 2016, which is obvious from the first interaction...
2016-12-20
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The Trails We Leave
Over the weekend I got an email from have i been pwned, a website that tracks data breaches and notifies...
2016-12-19
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SSRS 2016: Great and Getting Better
Although I’ve been a regular user of SQL Server Reporting Services since it was released in the mid-2000s, I’ve done...
2016-12-18
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SSIS Execution Status Lookup
The SSIS catalog comes packaged with a rich set of built-in reports that give those monitoring Integration Services a window...
2016-12-17
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Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
Forums
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers